Reviews

Between September and October of the past year, the famous Brazilian artist Tung (Palmares, 1952) made a strong impression on the visitors to the Moscow Biennial. Supported by metal structures, laboratory flasks containing a yellowish liquid tied to phallic-shaped crystal fragments and simulacra of faeces.

“We can never bathe twice in the same river,” Heraclitus of Ephesus, the enigmatic Presocratic thinker pointed out. The river is the same river we always see, he explained, but its waters are constantly changing.

Time will reveal it all, the selective exhibition of works by the British artist Hannah Collins at the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, is a reflection of the marginality and displacement in contemporary society.

Several sculptural structures made of metal, plastic or textiles constitute this Venezuelan artist’s exhibition at Sextante Gallery, entitled “Gen y Figura”.

Far removed from the discourse of a curated show on a particular theme, this exhibition gathers together some of the best names in what critics have termed The Intermediate Generation.

In her first solo show in Venezuela, filmmaker and artist Mariana Rondón (Edo. Lara, 1966) delighted the public. Rondón has been doing research on the narrative possibilities of robotics for more than ten years.

Vicente Antonorsi (Caracas, 1952) presents an exhibition in which he contrasts the geometric and the rational.

Rooted in different intellectual fields contemporary philosophy, computer science, or cultural studies the exhibition “Atopia: Art and City in the Twentieth Century” is a response to a series of anguishing symptoms of the city in the culture of world globalization.

In Selected works 1998-2001, Glexis Novoa Vian’s (Cuba, 1964) exhibition at Farside Gallery, three works reveal a period of aesthetic transition.

The development, in the late 1950s, of the magnetic tape that made it possible to record image and sound, implied a vital democratization of mass culture.

The recently inaugurated O. Ascanio Gallery, Miami, presented the solo show “Nanín: Recent Works”, and who was also a disciple of Carlos Cruz Diez for 13 years.

José Luis Alonso Mateo (1964, Havana) has focused his works for several years on the analysis of the rites and symbols of power, the high classes, aristocracy and royalty hence perhaps the reason for his being dubbed El Conde (the Count).

Ángel Vapor’s (Havana, Cuba, 1970) artistic oeuvre has been characterized by its versatility and by the enigmatic aura typical of any creative production that includes such diversity of genres and sources

The Every other Day, an exhibition that occupies the spatious first floor of the building adjoining the main exhibition premises of Ideobox Art Space, includes the recent work of eleven artists.

The annual exhibition of works by artists selected for the Grants and Commissions Program of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO, in Miami, is a reference point.

If there is something conclusive in the work of Héctor Maldonado (Puerto Rico, 1972) it is his versatility.

Henrique Faria Fine Art is closing this season with an exhibition never presented before in the United States: Gerd Leufert & Gego.

Estudios paragráficos is José Damasceno’s (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1968) most recent proposal, a combination of prints and installations created specifically for this exhibition with which the Madrid gallery Distrito 4 opens its new season.

It is not a simple task to interpret in a concise manner a space like the one occupied by the coldstore facility in Madrid’s central slaughter house; Carlos Garaicoa ((Havana, Cuba, 1967) however, has managed to do so.

Chronological leaps and narrative soundness may be found in “Photography in Argentina 1840-2010”, the exhibition that spans the history of the discipline from its origins to the present, through canonical images and other less known ones.

They look like exotic jewels from an Arabian Nights’ tale. We are referrring to the work of an artist with a long and fruitful trajectory, Monique Rozanès.

Who was Ana Mendieta? Who is Ana Mendieta today? “One of the most inventive and iconoclastic artists of the late 20th century;” such the categorical assertion of Olga Viso, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

I first came across the work of Pablo Vargas Lugo (Mexico City, 1968) in the late 1990’s around the time that his seminal pieces began to exhibit internationally, thus becoming referential outside of Mexican contemporary art circles

Pablo Reinoso’s Buenos Aires, 1955 bold oeuvre defies perception; it plays with illusion and with the viewer’s participation, offering a framework for reflection.